Title: Chocolate/orange Mousse
Categories: Mexican Dessert
Yield: 6 Servings

12	oz	Semisweet chocolate, broken
1/4	c	Water
1	tb	Butter
1	tb	Orange flavored liqueur
4		Eggs separated*
2/3	c	Whipping Cream

*Use only FRESH eggs without cracks

Put chocolate in a bowl with water. Place bowl over a pan of simmering water, stir chocolate until it melts - stir occasionally. Remove pan from heat and stir chocolate five minutes. Remove bowl from pan and stir butter and liqueur into chocolate.

In another bowl, whisk egg whites until stiff. Beat yolks into slightly cooled chocolate mixture, then gently fold in whites until just evenly mixed.

Spoon mixture into individual glasses and refrigerate until set, about one hour.

Decorate with whipped cream.

Book of Mexican Foods

== Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ==

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